Description

If the property permits, multiple "recur" values are
specified by a COMMA character (US-ASCII decimal 44) separated list
of values. The value type is a structured value consisting of a list
of one or more recurrence grammar parts. Each rule part is defined by
a NAME=VALUE pair. The rule parts are separated from each other by
the SEMICOLON character (US-ASCII decimal 59). The rule parts are not
ordered in any particular sequence. Individual rule parts MUST only
be specified once.

The FREQ rule part identifies the type of recurrence rule. This rule
part MUST be specified in the recurrence rule. Valid values include
SECONDLY, to specify repeating events based on an interval of a
second or more; MINUTELY, to specify repeating events based on an
interval of a minute or more; HOURLY, to specify repeating events
based on an interval of an hour or more; DAILY, to specify repeating
events based on an interval of a day or more; WEEKLY, to specify
repeating events based on an interval of a week or more; MONTHLY, to
specify repeating events based on an interval of a month or more; and
YEARLY, to specify repeating events based on an interval of a year or
more.

The INTERVAL rule part contains a positive integer representing how
often the recurrence rule repeats. The default value is "1", meaning
every second for a SECONDLY rule, or every minute for a MINUTELY
rule, every hour for an HOURLY rule, every day for a DAILY rule,
every week for a WEEKLY rule, every month for a MONTHLY rule and
every year for a YEARLY rule.

The UNTIL rule part defines a date-time value which bounds the
recurrence rule in an inclusive manner. If the value specified by
UNTIL is synchronized with the specified recurrence, this date or
date-time becomes the last instance of the recurrence. If specified
as a date-time value, then it MUST be specified in an UTC time
format. If not present, and the COUNT rule part is also not present,
the RRULE is considered to repeat forever.

The COUNT rule part defines the number of occurrences at which to
range-bound the recurrence. The "DTSTART" property value, if
specified, counts as the first occurrence.

The BYSECOND rule part specifies a COMMA character (US-ASCII decimal
44) separated list of seconds within a minute. Valid values are 0 to
59. The BYMINUTE rule part specifies a COMMA character (US-ASCII
decimal 44) separated list of minutes within an hour. Valid values
are 0 to 59. The BYHOUR rule part specifies a COMMA character (US-
ASCII decimal 44) separated list of hours of the day. Valid values
are 0 to 23.

Each BYDAY value can also be preceded by a positive (+n) or negative
(-n) integer. If present, this indicates the nth occurrence of the
specific day within the MONTHLY or YEARLY RRULE. For example, within
a MONTHLY rule, +1MO (or simply 1MO) represents the first Monday
within the month, whereas -1MO represents the last Monday of the
month. If an integer modifier is not present, it means all days of
this type within the specified frequency. For example, within a
MONTHLY rule, MO represents all Mondays within the month.

The BYMONTHDAY rule part specifies a COMMA character (ASCII decimal
44) separated list of days of the month. Valid values are 1 to 31 or
-31 to -1. For example, -10 represents the tenth to the last day of
the month.

The BYYEARDAY rule part specifies a COMMA character (US-ASCII decimal
44) separated list of days of the year. Valid values are 1 to 366 or
-366 to -1. For example, -1 represents the last day of the year
(December 31st) and -306 represents the 306th to the last day of the
year (March 1st).

The BYWEEKNO rule part specifies a COMMA character (US-ASCII decimal
44) separated list of ordinals specifying weeks of the year. Valid
values are 1 to 53 or -53 to -1. This corresponds to weeks according
to week numbering as defined in [ISO 8601]. A week is defined as a
seven day period, starting on the day of the week defined to be the
week start (see WKST). Week number one of the calendar year is the
first week which contains at least four (4) days in that calendar
year. This rule part is only valid for YEARLY rules. For example, 3
represents the third week of the year.

Note: Assuming a Monday week start, week 53 can only occur when
Thursday is January 1 or if it is a leap year and Wednesday is
January 1.

The BYMONTH rule part specifies a COMMA character (US-ASCII decimal
44) separated list of months of the year. Valid values are 1 to 12.

The WKST rule part specifies the day on which the workweek starts.
Valid values are MO, TU, WE, TH, FR, SA and SU. This is significant
when a WEEKLY RRULE has an interval greater than 1, and a BYDAY rule
part is specified. This is also significant when in a YEARLY RRULE
when a BYWEEKNO rule part is specified. The default value is MO.

The BYSETPOS rule part specifies a COMMA character (US-ASCII decimal
44) separated list of values which corresponds to the nth occurrence
within the set of events specified by the rule. Valid values are 1 to
366 or -366 to -1. It MUST only be used in conjunction with another
BYxxx rule part. For example "the last work day of the month" could
be represented as:

Each BYSETPOS value can include a positive (+n) or negative (-n)
integer. If present, this indicates the nth occurrence of the
specific occurrence within the set of events specified by the rule.

If BYxxx rule part values are found which are beyond the available
scope (ie, BYMONTHDAY=30 in February), they are simply ignored.

Information, not contained in the rule, necessary to determine the
various recurrence instance start time and dates are derived from the
Start Time (DTSTART) entry attribute. For example,
"FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=1" doesn't specify a specific day within the
month or a time. This information would be the same as what is
specified for DTSTART.

BYxxx rule parts modify the recurrence in some manner. BYxxx rule
parts for a period of time which is the same or greater than the
frequency generally reduce or limit the number of occurrences of the
recurrence generated. For example, "FREQ=DAILY;BYMONTH=1" reduces the
number of recurrence instances from all days (if BYMONTH tag is not
present) to all days in January. BYxxx rule parts for a period of
time less than the frequency generally increase or expand the number
of occurrences of the recurrence. For example,
"FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=1,2" increases the number of days within the
yearly recurrence set from 1 (if BYMONTH tag is not present) to 2.

If multiple BYxxx rule parts are specified, then after evaluating the
specified FREQ and INTERVAL rule parts, the BYxxx rule parts are
applied to the current set of evaluated occurrences in the following
order: BYMONTH, BYWEEKNO, BYYEARDAY, BYMONTHDAY, BYDAY, BYHOUR,
BYMINUTE, BYSECOND and BYSETPOS; then COUNT and UNTIL are evaluated.
Here is an example of evaluating multiple BYxxx rule parts.

First, the "INTERVAL=2" would be applied to "FREQ=YEARLY" to arrive
at "every other year". Then, "BYMONTH=1" would be applied to arrive
at "every January, every other year". Then, "BYDAY=SU" would be
applied to arrive at "every Sunday in January, every other year".
Then, "BYHOUR=8,9" would be applied to arrive at "every Sunday in
January at 8 AM and 9 AM, every other year". Then, "BYMINUTE=30"
would be applied to arrive at "every Sunday in January at 8:30 AM and
9:30 AM, every other year". Then, lacking information from RRULE, the
second is derived from DTSTART, to end up in "every Sunday in January
at 8:30:00 AM and 9:30:00 AM, every other year". Similarly, if the
BYMINUTE, BYHOUR, BYDAY, BYMONTHDAY or BYMONTH rule part were
missing, the appropriate minute, hour, day or month would have been
retrieved from the "DTSTART" property.

No additional content value encoding (i.e., BACKSLASH character
encoding) is defined for this value type.

Example

The following is a rule which specifies 10 meetings which
occur every other day:
FREQ=DAILY;COUNT=10;INTERVAL=2
There are other examples specified in the "RRULE" specification.